Entry n 43: The blog as a class component

I think that the blog would be a very productive educational tool for the improvement of our writing skills if it was applied in a very different context taking into account our socio-economical reality.
What I mean with this is that almost the whole group of students in this class lack of the financial solvence needed to buy a computer or even to spend money in going to a cyber place to use Internet whether to publish our entries, to look for articles or even for doing all the writing productions. So that the majority of my classmates and I have been having many problems with this task, especially those who do not know how to use the computer of those who do not count with time enough to spend in doing all this extra work.
The most desappointing thing is that almost all of us do not have any kind of comment from the theacher and as a consecuence we do not know how well or how wrong we are doing our written works.
And I believe that the amount of work that you ask us to do is too much, and may be if you would reduce the amount of work you would also be able to give as the feedback that we need to improve it.
Although I understand your point of wanting us to improve our knowledge and skills in the use of technological devices, I think that it is not necessary to include it in the language class because up to now it has been a troubling thing for us instead of helping us. It is completely absurd to have to learn how to use a computer and how to surf on the Internet to be able to pass the language class.
I am not against technology but it has been quite complicated to apply it into the language class.
Apart from that I think that as future High School teachers we need more practice in what respect to grammatical knowledge as well as improving our speaking skills and vocabulary, and the only way of reaching this point is by reading as much as possible.